Vernon should focus on baseload power.
Decentralized intermittent generation gobbles up open lands. Vernon should preserve its history of agricultural and open lands.
Emily Hallock is a patient care technician at Brattleboro Retreat. She originally posted this piece...
WEST BRATTLEBORO-Free the drugs. I suggest the state of Vermont offers free drugs administered by...
PUTNEY-The Jim Jeffords ("I didn't leave the party, the party left me") solution: The U.S.
MIDDLEBURY-CCM Holland Mills' letter itself is filled with untrue statements and harmful rhetoric, which I,
BRATTLEBORO-The Commons invites the community to a panel discussion about Vermont's homelessness crisis and how it affects us all. Systemic problems (like lack of affordable housing, low wages, and cost of labor) and personal circumstances (like life-altering events) can cause anyone to become homeless. The discussion will center around a better understanding of what it means to be unhoused and how as a community we can come together to make change. The event, part of the newspaper's Voices Live! forum...
Just as Vermont is the state that launched Bernie Sanders onto a national stage, we also have an opportunity to nominate candidates for governor and lieutenant governor who have bold, progressive ideas. Matt Dunne and David Zuckerman are both fighters for a sustainable and just future. Some ideas they both share include: • an understanding of the existential peril posed by climate disruption. Vermonters tend to pay attention to weather. We know the extreme heat and drought of this summer...
Kathy Bullock, Ph.D., professor emerita of music from Berea College, will lead a daylong workshop at Guilford Community Church Saturday, April 15 “to teach new choral music by Black composers, to honor their work, and to share the history of appropriation of Black music,” according to a media release. The workshop is part of the international Black Lives Matter Commissioning Project (BLMCP) in affiliation with the Vermont Conference of the United Church of Christ's Racial Justice Task Force. Catalyzed by...
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